After
the never ceasing monsoon wind that made suspension of classes plus some events
in school, finally we finally got to continue our lecture about creativity.
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Of
course after the discussion ideas flew all over my head and thought of doing
something creative. Many of us Filipinos consider a work creative through
various considerations: first if you’re too young and you made an unexceptional
work like drawing stupid lines of course your parents would be proud and will
say like “Aww.. My child’s such a genius, maybe one day he’ll be an artist” and
I’m “okay?? Second if you’re fond of painting abstract that only you could
understand and pretenders would say “You’re so creative, I’d never thought of
such beautiful painting as you do, blah blah I felt your emotion” and I’m like “seriously?”,
the third is when some intelligent Filipinos see the real creativity and it
matched the things discussed in class. There are three elements of creativity
according to Robinson; first imaginativeness, originality, and making something
relevant. And this is really the qualifications of creativity, not some kind of
plastic expression to certain made things.
We
also tackled certain disciplines tackling psychology; these are things that
enable a person’s creativity or to where he or she gets maybe inherit his or
her creativity. Like the Japanese their state of mind is absolutely
unbelievable, but then there are certain extremes showed in class that makes
them somewhat stupid alsoJ. Our prof also made a comparison, while the
Westerners conjoining the Americans and the Europeans with their fission
system, the Japanese alone had their fusion. That’s why I’m wondering after
class, how brilliant Japanese are. They didn’t invent a lot of things but then
when it comes to market and sales they’re unbelievable. Japanese make things
more useful than ever. Also having their hybrid technological idea makes their
minds the empire state.
How
come Filipinos don’t have this? Of course we do. Having such examples of the fluorescent
lamps which the government did not support, LPG gas, water diesel, and a lot
more. Maybe we are inventive but ain’t creative. We don’t know how to manage
things that’s why our ideas are being stolen from us. Only scientists maybe are
creative, but hands down to the Japanese in all aspects, yes they are the
henyos, because of their Mandala, which is their process of gaining ideas.
Yes, I agree that Japanese make things more useful than ever, maybe innovation is already in their blood but I don't think Filipinos aren't creative. It's just that when it comes to inventions, we lack funds and support from the government and so what will happen is the inventor will just sell his invention or his ideas to foreigners which is sad.
ReplyDeleteif someone is into art, what comes after is "creative ka!" :) as if they are interchangable. Among the three that you mentioned on Robinson's elements in creativity. it think, often times relevance and originality are overlooked. it doesn't matter if its a copy-paste so long that it is better. more efficient. more creative. more this or that (which i am actually not sure if its a positive or a negative thing) but i think its productive as long as its useful and of good relevance :)
ReplyDeleteThe thing about creativity is that it is limitless. Some will find it odd but most of the times we can say that it is still a valid idea. It is about transition of ideas into reality (that most people find it very hard). We, Filipinos, have so many ideas in our mind but failed to translate it into more productive way. 3 reasons - 1. Support and limited resources, 2. It is not timely and outdated 3. We are afraid to explore possibilities.
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